August 4, 2017How to react when someone exposes himself

In case you encounter an exhibitionist: Don’t let his problem become yours.

I was only a teenager when someone decided to expose himself to my friend and I.

He asked for the way, one of the many tricks how they get close to you.

While we were distracted about how he could best get there, he was already presenting himself to us.

What’s so mean about it is that you can’t help it but look, so even if involuntarily, you give him what he wants.

Not so in our case however:

My friend, only one year older than me, had the wits to point at it, laugh out loud and shout: “That small thing? Really not worth showing!” With that she linked arms with me and we walked off.

The mere satisfaction that we did not react liked stunned deer, but like empowered women, who embrace the situation they’re thrown into and have something witty to say about it, shrugging it off like the dirt these scumbags are, and not taking any of it!

Knowing that this person did not get out of it what had motivated him in the first place: Shocking someone who’d otherwise never even notice him, and having that moment of power.